Alfons Crespo is a professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UPV in 1984. He became an associate professor in 1986 and a full professor in 1991. He leads an industrial informatics group and has also led several European and Spanish research projects. His main research interests include aspects of real-time systems (including scheduling, hardware support, scheduling, and control integration). He has published more than 60 papers in specialized journals and conferences in the area of real-time systems.